[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 1:11:10 AM UTC+13, Simon Clubley wrote:
> For the record however, I am a seriously technical type, not a management 
> type ...

Prove it. Look seriously into the technicalities of what that company offers.

For example, looking more deeply into their case studies, it’s clear that they don’t expect to move any serious amount of code, even just user-mode code, across unchanged. There’s always some serious rewriting involved. For instance, in one case study, the customer is using DECnet, yet in the description of how that port was done, mention of DECnet mysteriously disappears.

For another example, look how they blandly claim that a whole bunch of VMS system calls can be carried across, including all the SYS$ calls. Really?? Including, say, $CMEXEC or $CMKRNL? Do you really expect those to work without an authentic VMS kernel behind them?

Those are just some examples of the sorts of gaps you might not notice if you are not a technical type.